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able for both reasons and brought about a remarkable change. 

 All these lots contained a comparatively low percentage of water 

 when I made the first round of milling tests. When the flours 

 obtained from that round were baked, Pusa 22 gave a surprising 

 result, for I knew that it was White Jana Khar which, in 1909, 

 yielded flour of the highest class, possessing among other first rate 

 characteristics a really great strength ; yet from the first milling this 

 season we obtained flour which was not strong, though first rate in 

 other respects. Finally, after some experimenting, I raised the 

 water content of the wheat to high figures, and then let some 

 part of it remain for a considerable time before it was milled. Then 

 we obtained results in the bakehouse similar to those of 1909, and 

 the behaviour of the variety during the milling processes of 

 grinding and dressing was first rate. Even so, I have not this year 

 obtained quite so good baking results as in 1909, but the miller and 

 baker would be extremely hard to please if they were not content 

 with them even this year. Judged by appearance, we again get 

 the same order of merit as in the previous cases stated herein — 



Cawnpore. 



Pusa, 



Aligarh. 



Bankipore. 



Lyallpur. 



with this difference, that the Pusa and Aligarh lots should be 

 bracketed equal. Furthermore, the appearance of these wheats 

 provided a forecast of some of the baking results already specified, 

 for though the Cawnpore lot looked strong, the others did not this 

 season appear to be nearly so strong as the one lot of this variety 

 which I received in 1909. All of them are really good as regards 

 stability, and the order of merit on that point of quality agrees with 

 their appearance as recorded above. In that respect they stand well 

 in competition with wheat from any part of the world and the 

 Cawnpore lot gets into the very highest class. As regards the one point 

 of strength (size of loaf) the results are not so good, and all five lots 



